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A spider twirls a fruit fly around in a circle with radius 17.6 cm at the end of a web. If the velocity of the fly is 110 cm/s, what is the centripetal acceleration of the fly? …

A spider twirls a fruit fly around in a circle with radius 17.6 cm at the end of a web. If the velocity of the fly is 110 cm/s, what is the centripetal acceleration of the fly? …
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A spider twirls a fruit fly around in a circle with radius 17.6 cm at the end of a web. If the velocity of the fly is 110 cm/s, what is the centripetal acceleration of the fly? m/s2.

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Centripetal acceleration is the rate of change of tangential velocity

Give: Radius r = 17.6 cm; Velocity V = 110 cm/s

Formula: Centripetal acceleration ac = V²/r

ac = (110 cm/s)²/17.6 cm

ac = 687.5 cm/s²
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